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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Does C# Measure Up? Windows::Developer is offering a detailed, quantitative examination of C#'s performance versus Java, C, C++ and D.

Matt — Jabber 2.7: Corporate Messaging and OETrends Roundup.

MySQL Database Server 3.23.58. Mostly bug fixes.

iTunes For Windows: Mid-October according to MSNBC.

Mike — The SFGate has a good interview with Scott McNealy.

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Sun uncovers Project Orion and Project Mad Hatter. Grid, P2P technology missing from Project Orion.

Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit. Borland C++BuilderX.

Head Of Homeland Cybersecurity Named. Amit Yoran.

Matthew — English language Open Source magazines.

Tom — 80% of movies found on file sharing systems come from internal studio versions. And how many of them are "released" by studios to generate positive "buzz"?

Russ — Has Nokia Phone Design Stalled?

Henri — Commons-Lang, a bile answer.

Dave — New Java books..

Rusty — ROXES Ant Tasks 1.0, a collection of three open source ant tasks.

Thomas — More, Better JavaBean Utilities.

Matt — Hypersonic PC Sucks! and SSL switching with web.xml.

Andreas — Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide.

Joey — By Popular Demand, I Give You… Mixer!

Niel — Fix for Enhydra's XML-RPC Library.

Cedric — Open Source and Documentation.

Simon — Interactive Python.

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The state of Python-XML. Roundup.

In-flight SMS. Commercial two-way SMS service.

Rusty — J2SSH 0.2.5 and JCSC 0.9.5 (Java Coding Standard Checker).

James — London Java Meetup — just come along!

Gadgets you can't have. The latest and greatest cool gear from Japan.

Jay — Wily Tech Launches Groundbreaking Study on Java Application Performance.

Rod — Kudos to Jakarta Commons FileUpload.

JMail 0.8.6 RC2, a mail client written in Java.

JFtp 1.35 , a graphical network browser supporting FTP, SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and local I/O.

What wiring should I put in a new house? Cat 5?

Marc — Laszlo OPML viewer, XML and apple pie.

Mark — BaseHTTPServer for unit tests.

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Danny — Earthquake!

Russ — Mobile Food For Thought and XAOism in the Real World.

Thomas — Allemagne, capitale européenne du Wi-Fi.

FCC, Music Biz Face Showdowns This Week. The media and entertainment industries face a pair of big policy hurdles this week.

Jim — FoafMobile some suggestions and Phone Mast Stupidity.

YourKit Java Memory Profiler 1.0.1 , a new generation of memory profiling tools.

PyRSS2Gen. Generating RSS 2 in Python.

Petri — Antenna Tree.

Todd — Microsoft Guide to Security Patch Management.

Diego — microsoft-motorola announcement coming up.

Matt — Persistence Options with existing SQL.

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We went to see Once Upon A Time In Mexico on Saturday. We also rented Shanghai Knights, which was a major dud.

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JSmooth, a Java Executable Wrapper that makes a standard Windows executable binary (.exe) from a jar file.

Martin — Ryuichi Sakamoto and Online Aggregators.

Matt — WebEnvironment.py and Geekzone.co.nz Bluetooth Guide.

Toby — Finding a client-side technology.

Andrej — J2eecertificate.com.

Jay — A new and improved Architectslobby.org.

Rusty — Jaxen 1.1, an open source XPath library for Java.

Dominic — Miguel de Icaza on J2EE vs .NET.

Michael — The future of mobile Java games (thoughts from the game conference).

Matt — Struts Resume 0.8 Released!

Ted — Feed algebras and Embrace and Extend.

Vinny — The Tomcat Bible - A must own book for anyone using Tomcat.

Chris — NerdBooks - still the best online (and offline!) bookstore.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.5b1.

Jeremy — Scrmabeld Txet.

Marc — iPod in a car.

Kevin — Java XPIs for Mozilla .

Christoph — Opera to use Google AdWords.

Java Class File Editor 2.2, a Java class file binary to view or edit strings, attributes, methods, etc.

JDebugTool 3.2 , a graphical Java debugger.

Complete MySQL: simple database installation for Mac OS X.

AT&T Offers Windows-Based Smartphone. Device features Microsoft software and Motorola hardware.

On September 15, 2003 — Madonna's children's book “The English Roses” went on sale.

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Diego — on rss autodiscovery.

Anthony — Sign of the Times.

Henri — JFreeChart JSP Taglib.

Brian — Windows Look and Feel Fidelity 0.3 Released.

Andreas — Foreign High-Tech Workers: a Scapegoat for a sagging Economy? I don't think So.

David — Aurora, build 926 is available.

Simon — Jump!

Suing parents for kids' file sharing could be difficult. "And in general, if you win an action against a kid, you don't get to collect against the parent…"

Erik — Media.

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SAAJ: No strings attached. Send and receive binary Web services content using SAAJ 1.2.

Java Web services for various client types. Use attachments from Java, .Net, and browser clients for FOP Web services.

Diego — you like your myths rare or well done?

Matt — XMLSpy 2004 and XML in Emacs.

Rusty — IBM's alphaWorks has released the Backward Compatibility Tester, a "tool for testing the backward compatibility of Java Archive (JAR) files.

Dominic — Upcoming books.

Matt — HowTo: Check for JUnit in $ANT_HOME/lib.

Jeremy — RSS Auto-Discovery 2.0.

TagUnit 1.0-beta1, a framework whereby custom tags can be tested inside the container.

J2SSH 0.2.5, a Java SSH version 2 API implementation.

FindBugs 0.6.6, a program to find bugs in Java programs.

Ex-Apple employee says company a 'failure'. Apple today is "the eccentric elderly uncle of the computer industry — still interesting, still beloved, but no longer truly powerful…"

Linux on desktop not cost-effective for most, says Gartner. Next week: analysts do it in harmony…

Russ — RSS and Commercial Aggregators.

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Vinny — My Love Affair With JRockit.

Jean-Yves — Mal communiqué sur MacOS X.

Oracle First-Quarter Net Jumps 28 Percent. A 28 percent jump in quarterly profit on a small rise in revenue.

Exposing Personal Information in the Whois Database. Letter to U.S. Representatives.

Jim — Yet more Foaf updates. I updated my foaf accordingly.

XM Completes $150M Stock Offering. Satellite radio firm to use funds to build new satellite if $400M insurance claim is denied.

Sue Microsoft? The latest major flaw in Windows is prompting some to ask whether the company should be held liable for its buggy software.

Running Individual Test Cases from Ant. JUnit and Ant.

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TV actor John Ritter dies. 54.

Python 2.3. Byte takes a look at what's new in Python 2.3.

Developing Applications for Windows Mobile: FAQ.

Matthew — More advice for Russ.

Andreas — New Bon Jovi Album: "This Left Feels Right".

JFaceDbc 2.0, a plugin for Eclipse. It allows you to view the structure and the content of any JDBC compliant database, issue SQL commands, etc.

JUnit in Action 0.2. The complete source code for all chapters of the book.

Johnny Cash has died too. 71.

Sam — Ganymede - Log4J Logging inside eclipse.

JFreeChart 0.9.12, a chart library.

Java Image Studio 2, a enhanced painting program.

On September 12, 1983 — Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen. He had emigrated from Austria 14 years earlier.

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Ensemble Glider, an integrated development toolkit that accelerates J2EE development.

Matt — Intel is Wasting Time With 802.11a Centrino.

Jay — Sun's new CEO, Papadopoulos, first interview .

Prabhu — EJB Performance tuning tips and JGo: Java diagram graphics libraries.

MicroWarehouse files for bankruptcy. MacWarehouse, PCWarehouse.

Christian Bale cast as new 'Batman'. Good choice.

RumorMill: Toshiba Planning New Pocket PC with Wi-Fi, Large Screen.

Steve — Petition Congress for Fair Copyright Enforcement.

Jeremy — Google Copycat.

Todd — Forty Million U.S. Broadband Users.

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Designing and Writing Java Action Games. Learn the essentials of Java action game development.

Kevin — JHelpDev open source JavaHelp editor.

Blaine — How to keep your job - preparations for the future.

Joe — JDJ's role in the community: entertainment or information?

Carlos — Jason's interview at TSS.

Zulfikar — Duke.

Steve — Linux/J2EE Causes Colon Cancer.

Mark — Why do some people call the taskbar the "tray?"

Cedric — More on components and classes.

Ovidiu — nXML - new XML editing mode for Emacs.

Steven — PDA Parade.

DrPython 1.1.3, a small cross-platform IDE to aid programming in Python.

PC-programmable universal remote. Harmony SST-659.

Java Zaurus Sync 0.03, a sync program for the Sharp Zaurus.

Bill Joy's greatest gift to man - the vi editor. Forget BSD Unix and NFS.

Sun Tables J2EE 1.4 Source Code. J2EE 1.4 beta and software development kits.

Apple sued by The Beatles over iPod, ITMS.

Lars — Vim as XML Editor.

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Matt — Linux Kernel 2.6: An Embedded Perspective and Windows Server 2003 On The Rise.

Russ — Learning about CDMA.

Jay — Web and Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns for J2EE.

Enhance Ant with XSL transformations. Real-world examples of Ant's power and flexibility.

Refactoring for everyone. How and why to use Eclipse's automated refactoring features.

Simplify enterprise Java authentication with single-sign on. Design secure client/server Java applications that use GSS-API and Kerberos tickets to implement SSO.

Using Java technology with Globus Grid Security Infrastructure. Generating grid credentials using the Java CoG Kit 1.1.

The reading lounge: Programming Wireless Devices with the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition.

Working with the Echo Web Framework: A two-part series.

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Frank — Steve's Declaration of Independence from the RIAA.

Mathew — Mobile replacement.

Dan — MS Abandoning VB!

NoUnit 0.7, measures your JUnit tests using XML and XSLT.

Java Service Wrapper 3.0.5, a configurable tool which allows Java applications to be installed and controlled like native NT or Unix services.

Rafe — Software Locking and smartphones.

Artists Blast The RIAA's Tactics. Recording artists across the board think the music industry should find a way to work with the Internet instead of suing people who have downloaded music.

Simon — PostgreSQL Performance Optimisation.

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Managing Complexity: Keeping a Large Java Project on Track.

Intel delays Wi-Fi part for Centrino. Here we go again.

David — blojsom 2.01 available.

Dan Shafer — Blogger Pro Now Free: Not Necessarily the Good News.

Rafe — Developing Eclipse plug-ins.

Limewire 3.5.7 offers iTunes integration. Better downloading and skins.

Bertrand — Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens answer to SCO.

Ross — Chapter 1.

NewzCrawler v1.5 RC2 has been released.

File-Sharing Companies Offer to Pay Girl's Settlement. A coalition of companies that run Internet song-sharing services offered yesterday to pick up the cost…

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Write Once, Run… Where? Does it really matter that Java code is completely portable?

Grasping Handlers. Define a complete service that demonstrates just how useful JAX-RPC handlers can be for you.

Daniel — [Ann] Subclipse 0.8.0 Released.

Microsoft really is cheaper than Linux, according to a new report by Gartner.

RIAA Sued For Amnesty Offer. The suit claims that the amnesty is "designed to induce members of the general public… to incriminate themselves… while (receiving)… no legally binding release of claims…"

Carlos — Components are Like Runtime Classes.

Torvalds to McBride: Grow up. Thank you so much for your letter.

Seybold, OracleWorld hit with bomb scare. Seybold and OracleWorld conference attendees were evacuated from San Francisco's Moscone convention center due to a bomb threat…

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Sun may offer Java customers SCO relief. Can fear of SCO help Java grow? Sun thinks it just might.

Fad Watch: 'Reflectoporn' is new craze on eBay.

Inside the GNOME 2.4 Desktop & Developer Platform. This marks the third major release of the GNOME 2 platform.

Diego — the new Swing GTK look and feel in JDK 1.4.2.

Jim — Foaf on the move.

François — Fast rollovers, no preload needed.

Kevin — Looking at Java Swing GUI frameworks.

Dion — New Research: J2EE bigger than .NET in Europe.

Mike — SourceID.org - when Open Source just plain isn't.

Doug — RSS Feeds for Chronicle's Job Listings. (For Russ)

Keith — Programmer tools.

Review: Java Web Services in a Nutshell.

Martin — EtymologyOfRefactoring.

Cedric — From classes to components.

Can rip-proof CDs save the music biz? Coming soon: The untouchable compact disc.

Alaska Air's digEplayer. First class handheld video and audio player.

Music lobby frightens Congress with P2P kiddie-porn nightmares. KaZaA promotes child rape.

FCC OKs Digital Cable Accord on TV Cards. A deal between television manufacturers and cable operators to replace digital signal converter boxes with a small card that slots into new televisions.

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Python modules for Mac OS X. CFPreferences API, etc.

Fill up with T-Mobile Wi-Fi at Texaco. A tank of petrol, a bag of crisps and my email please.

Today in Entertainment History. The Trust is Out There!

Fear May Not Spur CD Sales. Heavy-handed tactics are unlikely to prove effective over the long run.

Making Money in the Wireless World. A broad view of the complex and rapidly evolving marketplace.

James — [OS X] more OS X goodies - PathFinder rocks.

Jim — Motorola A920 - Ugly Duckling, Swan or Dead Duck?

2002 SAGE Salary Survey Finally Released. How does your salary stack up in the post-crash economy?

Congress questions DMCA subpoenas. Come up with an alternative way to protect songs and movies on the Internet…

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Working with SocketChannels and Understanding AffineTransform.

jEdit 4.2pre5 is now available.

Scoot — JUnit, Kinda Open Source and Abandonment as a Virtue.

Adina — Texas resident sues DirecTV under RICO.

Seattle to Gain 250 Wi-Fi Hotspots. Cometa Networks' 250 new hotspots will afford the city the highest density of public Wi-Fi access in the nation.

Pattern Summaries: Prototype. The Prototype pattern enables a class to create objects that implement a known interface by giving it a prototypical instance of each kind of object it will create.

Flash Player 7, MX 2004 trials available from Macromedia.

Jodd, a generic purpose open-source Java library.

KISS WiFi Plasma TV. 802.11g.

Martin — Blogger Pro, It's Time To Go.

Russ — Mobile Jobs.

File swappers face data limits. Need bigger pipes.

Matt — The Eight Cent Rut.

Microsoft to Open Windows Media Video. If accepted, the WMV 9 codec will become an international standard.

On September 10, 1897 — British police arrest George Smith for drunken driving. It was the first DWI.

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Iron Maiden released a new album: Dance Of Death. Sounds like good old maiden to me.

Niel — Free J2ME and Gaming Book.

Jeffrey — eBay SDK 'hello world' in C#.

Ross — Interdependency vs. Reuse.

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Sheldon is looking for some feedback on his J2EE Service Wrapper Pattern Candidate.

Todd — If your thinking about asking for RIAA amnesty better reconsider.

François — PDAs: keyboards coming back!

Matt — HowTo: Using XDoclet's StrutsForm and a 41KB j2ee.jar.

Jeremy — Type Anywhere, On Anything.

Cisco unveils color VoIP phone. 7970G, touch screen, around $1,000.

FCC: Stern's raunchy radio show is a news program.

12-Year-Old Girl Settles With RIAA for $2,000.

SuperWaba 4.01, a Java-like virtual machine for PDAs.

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SCO invites open source people to 'monetize' Linux. An open letter, from SCO boss Darl McBride.

Sun Microsystems' Co-Founder to Resign. Bill Joy is leaving to pursue other interests.

Barnes and Noble Drops Ebooks. Not too surprising.

Matt — A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That.

Russ — Symbian Developer Position.

Jay — Pattern Summaries: Prototype.

Dan — Soaplet Framework.

David — Aurora, build 922 is available.

Joe — On Editing for JDJ, yet again.

James — Groovy is starting to take shape…

John — KaZaA now has a plus version.

Anthony — JDJ Editorials of Interest.

Cedric — Holub is at it again.

Open Snippets: Java Hex Functions.

Sony's wireless home theater-in-a-box. New wireless 5.1 channel surround sound home theater-in-a-box system from Sony.

Happy Birthday, Google! Five years ago, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their fledgling startup.

Micro Warehouse flogs North American ops. The mail order reseller is selling its North American business to CDW for $22m.

Matt — My tips o' the day.

'Homeless hacker' surrenders to feds. Adrian Lamo.

Cingular's auto-forwarding cradle for cellphones. Automatically forward calls made to the phone to a landline number.

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Amaya 8.1b, a W3C's Web browser and authoring tool.

Diego — SWT: first impressions.

Carlos — MundoJava is out!

Janne — RSS weather.

Keith — The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing.

Jeremy — Popups Are Legal.

Matt — Is Sun Java Certification all that?

Julian — 12 Thoughts About Making Code More Efficient.

Pierre — sandler - Java Atom API.

Java SOS 3.55, a Java servlets office suite.

RIAA Lawsuits Hit 71 Year Old Grandfather, 12 Year Old Girl. No surprise here…

US Wireless Carriers Adopt Code for Better Service. The largest U.S. wireless carriers voluntarily adopted a list of principles…

Apple Sells 10 Million Songs on Online Music Store.

On September 9, 1850 — California became the 31st state to join the union.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

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Dion — Comparing Java Data Binding Tools.

Russ — I LOVE XPATH!

Andrej — JDeveloper 10G: First attempt.

Simon — Pro JSP 3rd Edition almost out and TagUnit 1.0 beta 1 available - with a user guide!

Hani — Disturbing interviews.

Bill — New vCard site.

Aaron — Froogle Redesign.

Joey — Java Regex APIs and Quoting.

Nelson — Using WSDL for GET.

Cedric — Thousands of bugs in the Character class.

Rafe — Hibernate Performance Challenge.

Charles — How toLowerCase and isLowerCase Interact: Not a Bug.

BBEdit's Version Control, examined by Macworld.

Java 1.4.1 Update 1, available for download through the Software Update preference pane.

Music swappers sued; amnesty program unveiled. 261 lawsuits filed.

Karl-Martin — Python gets bool(eans).

First look at Samsung's i600 Smartphone. No BT?

Microsoft Launches Office Online Site, a repository of free Office user resources on the Web.

Security firm: IE patch does not work.

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Apple introduces new 20GB and 40GB iPods. $399 and $499.

Apple gives iMacs a speed bump, USB 2.0 support.

Niel — Disappointment with Enhydra's XML-RPC Implementation.

Andrej — OracleWorld has started.

Mike — Sponsor me for the National Heart Foundation.

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JXMLPad 1.9.3, a java component for editing XML/HTML document.

Frank — eBay Developer weblog.

Simon — Getter and setter methods are evil.

Java Serialization to XML 2 2.1 . An automated object-XML mapping for distribution, persistence, and processing.

OpenOffice.org for Linux 1.1 RC4 and OpenOffice.org for Windows 1.1 RC4.

Fred — J2ME UI Library!

RealRadix — Why micro-payment systems won't succeed.

WebSphere Micro Environment Toolkit for PalmOS Developers. Two components: JarToPrc, and a JDWP-compliant debuggers.

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Introducing the Portlet Specification, Part 2.

Why getter and setter methods are evil. The getter/setter idiom is a commonplace feature in many Java programs.

Diego — now with Atom support: java google feeds bridge and  clevercactus bug/feature tracker online.

Russ — PalmOne/IBM get down with Java, Debugging Orion Server in Eclipse and How to 'refresh' your Nokia 3650.

Anthony — Clever Cactus.

Jay — New name for Eclipse!

Matt — Hibernate 2.1 beta 3 Released.

Sheldon — Friends Let Friends Write Singletons.

Hani — Foiled J2ME development attempt.

Werner — Java Serial communications on a RedHat 9 box.

Doug — MoinMT: MoinMoin Wiki Formatting Plugin for Movabletype.

Steven — OpenOffice on Mac OSX: pain.

7-Zip 3.09.01 beta released.

Microsoft settles antitrust suit with Be. Microsoft will pay Be more than $23 million…

On September 8, 1966 — NBC-TV aired the first episode of “Star Trek” entitled “The Man Trap”. The show was canceled on September 2, 1969.

Well, it had to happen…

We went to the vet yesterday afternoon to settle Max's final bill. They had couple cages setup in the lobby for cats in needs of new homes.

You guessed it…

We adopted, Callie, a 2-4 years old beautiful calico domestic shorthair. She was given up by some kid going to college.

I'll take and post some pictures soon.